Marsh McLennan Announces Pricing of $7.25 Billion Senior Notes Offering
October 30 2024 - 6:30PM
Business Wire
Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC) (the “Company”) announced today that
it has priced $950 million aggregate principal amount of its 4.550%
Senior Notes due 2027, $1,000 million aggregate principal amount of
its 4.650% Senior Notes due 2030, $1,000 million aggregate
principal amount of its 4.850% Senior Notes due 2031, $2,000
million aggregate principal amount of its 5.000% Senior Notes due
2035, $500 million aggregate principal amount of its 5.350% Senior
Notes due 2044, $1,500 million aggregate principal amount of its
5.400% Senior Notes due 2055 and $300 million aggregate principal
amount of its Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2027 (collectively,
the “Notes”). The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the
Notes offering to fund, in part, the pending acquisition (the
“Transaction”) of the parent company of McGriff Insurance Services,
LLC, an affiliate of TIH Insurance Holdings, including the payment
of related fees and expenses, as well as for general corporate
purposes. The Transaction is targeted to close by year-end, subject
to regulatory approval and other standard closing conditions. The
closing of the Notes offering is not conditioned upon the closing
of the Transaction and is expected to occur on November 8, 2024,
subject to the satisfaction of certain customary closing
conditions.
All series of Notes (other than the 5.400% Senior Notes due 2055
(the “2055 Notes”)) are subject to a special mandatory redemption,
at a redemption price equal to 101% of the aggregate principal
amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding,
the special mandatory redemption date, under certain circumstances
if the Transaction is terminated or does not close by an agreed
upon date. If the Transaction is not completed, the Company intends
to use the net proceeds of the 2055 Notes for general corporate
purposes.
Citigroup Global Markets Inc., BofA Securities, Inc., Deutsche
Bank Securities Inc., HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., J.P. Morgan
Securities LLC, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Barclays Capital Inc.,
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, RBC
Capital Markets, LLC, Scotia Capital (USA) Inc., TD Securities
(USA) LLC and U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc. are acting as joint
book-running managers for the Notes offering. Academy Securities,
Inc., ANZ Securities, Inc., BNP Paribas Securities Corp., BNY
Mellon Capital Markets, LLC, CIBC World Markets, Corp., ING
Financial Markets LLC, MUFG Securities Americas Inc., PNC Capital
Markets LLC, Siebert Williams Shank & Co., LLC and Standard
Chartered Bank are acting as co-managers for the Notes
offering.
An effective shelf registration statement related to the Notes
has previously been filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the “SEC”). The offering and sale of the Notes are
being made by means of a prospectus supplement and an accompanying
base prospectus related to the offering. Before you invest, you
should read the prospectus supplement and the base prospectus for
more complete information about the issuer and this offering.
You may obtain these documents for free by visiting the SEC
website at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, copies may be obtained from
any of the underwriters at (i) Citigroup Global Markets Inc., c/o
Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood,
NY 11717 or by telephone at 1-800-831-9146, (ii) BofA Securities,
Inc., North Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC 28255 or Attn: Prospectus
Department Email: dg.prospectus_requests@bofa.com or by telephone
at 1-800-294-1322, (iii) Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Attn.:
Prospectus Group 1 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019 or Email:
Prospectus.Ops@db.com or Tel: 1-800-503-4611, (iv) HSBC Securities
(USA) Inc., Attn: Transaction Management Group, 66 Hudson
Boulevard, New York, NY 10001 or email: tmg.americas@us.hsbc.com,
(v) J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, 383 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
10179, Attn: Investment Grade Syndicate Desk or by calling collect
at 1-212-834-4533 and (vi) Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, 608 2nd
Avenue South, Suite 1000, Minneapolis, MN 55402 Attn: WFS Customer
Service, Telephone: 1-800-645-3751, Email:
wfscustomerservice@wellsfargo.com.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or a
solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, nor does it
constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any jurisdiction in
which such offer, solicitation or sale is unlawful.
About Marsh McLennan
Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC) is a global leader in risk, strategy
and people, advising clients in 130 countries across four
businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer and Oliver Wyman. With
annual revenue of $23 billion and more than 85,000 colleagues,
Marsh McLennan helps build the confidence to thrive through the
power of perspective.
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Investor: Jay Gelb Marsh McLennan +1 212 345 1569
mmc.investor.relations@mmc.com
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